The Issue: Whether news of an Iranian terror plot was timed to divert attention from Fast and Furious.

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“Holder’s Distraction” (Editorial, Oct. 12) correctly points out how the announcement of a thwarted Iranian bombing attempt against Saudi targets in Washington takes a lot of heat off Attorney General Eric Holder.

We must remember, however, that we are never safe in the United States and must always be on the look out.

Certainly what appears to have been crack work by law-enforcement and intelligence agencies — including, conveniently, the Bureau Of Alcohol and Firearms — couldn’t have come at a better time for Holder.

The ATF is under heavy pressure to explain how it ended up selling guns to Mexican cartels — some of which turned up at the site where a US border agent was gunned down.

We are lucky that the United States wasn’t attacked once again.

Raquel Boujo

Brooklyn

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Of course the timing of the Saudi ambassador slay bust was accelerated to give Holder cover while he tries to obscure his “Fast and Furious” tracks.

But distractions are fleeting, and Agent Terry is still dead.

Holder sat atop the chain of command that led to these predictable deaths.

The e-mails the Justice Department released prove that Holder’s subordinates knew exactly what was going on.

ATF pushed 2,000 un-monitored weapons into Mexico, and over 200 people were murdered.

No subsequent success can offset this national disgrace.

Ray Arroyo

Westwood, NJ

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Given the ideology of the current administration, I don’t think the point of “Fast and Furious” was to track weapons or snare drug-cartel leaders.

The technology available to the government would have allowed the Justice Department to easily track the weapons, and the border could be protected if the administration wanted to do so.

The intent was to undermine the Second Amendment, an obvious goal of the president’s since before he was elected.

A citizen who was trying to protect other Americans was killed by one of these weapons. Holder should not be allowed to weasel his way out of that.

Nancy Chapman

Niantic, Conn.

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Reassigning the ATF agents is another attempt to cover up this administration’s illegal activities.

The lack of mainstream media coverage of “Fast and Furious” is a glaring example of an attempt to control what news goes over the airwaves.

If this were a Republican president, the media would be falling all over themselves.

The only time we turn our channel to ABC, CBS or NBC is when we watch a football game.

Jill Lawless

Canyon Lakes, Texas

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Everyone seems to be avoiding one obvious reason for “Fast and Furious”: money.

Could some of our Justice Department or White House staff be receiving kickbacks from the cartels or rich anti-gun advocates?

Richard Krieger

Stillwater, Okla.

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The Second Amendment stands for our citizens’ right to exercise safe, responsible gun ownership and use.

It’s too bad the Washington big shots who try to deprive us of those rights are now fast and furiously ducking for cover because of their own irresponsible, incompetent choice to provide deadly firearms to vicious Mexican drug cartels.

I applaud Rep. Darrell Issa for his efforts to seek the answers and individuals behind this fiasco.

John Fox

Galloway, NJ

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In the mid-’80s, when we had an arms-for-hostages scandal, the media ran that story every day until they got a special prosecutor and there were indictments and convictions.

At least the Iran-Contra case was done to secure hostage release. In this case, nothing so noble was intended. In fact, numerous people were killed with those weapons. The media need to get off the Obama love train. This is an epic scandal.